INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1962, 5 October 1888, Page 3

INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.

(PHB PBEBB ASSOCIATION.)

Auckland, October 4 Mr E. Withy, MB,R , aoootnpanted by Ifn Withy, left for Sydney yesterday evening en toute to England and the Paris Exhibition. * Wzllxkotok, October 4. A Maori girl named Tapera Horl, aged 14, was killed at Greycown yeiterday. Th« horses attaohed to a roller bolted, and the girl m attempting to stop them waa knocked doirn and her skull friotured. Sb» died m a few hou<-s. The Star Boating Olab has determined not to send a crew to the Paramatta Begatts. In their report tbe Wellington Acclimatisation Society refer with regret to the steady decrease of native birds all over New Zealand, more especially the pigeon. Thli fine bird li now beooming very soarce, j A considerable amonnt of this decrease is j attributed to the faot that the settlers will not recognise a uniform shooting and olose season throughout the colony. The Sjmd, which closed Its sittings yesterday, presented an address to Bishop Hadfield In commemoration of his saoerdo'tal jabilee. Reference was made to the faot that he wa« the first deaoon ordained In Australia, and the first priest In New Zealand, and the first bishop couseorated wlifeVot Royal mandate or letter* patent. Nafzbr, Ootober 4. Buildings for the Waipawa Exhibition ais) g>ing up rapidly. Applications for S[ae« are bang received dally. DtmiDiN, Ootober 4, A ohlld of fire years, son of Mr Line, of Tsptnoi, hi i died from Id juries sustained by Its clothes taking fire*. A team of bowlers, consisting of eight neD, leave for Melbourne per Mararoa on the 28th. Oanterbnsy Is expeoted to send fire.

Bldtf, October 4. • A man named Johnson, formerly fireman on the s s. Bailey, was found drowned hare tbtg morning. It (1 lupposed that the deeeaied lost bis w«y last night, »nd wandering on the beach fell off the rooks lato the water. His body was found at high water mark.